Although wolf-canine interbreeding has been considered extremely rare, the latest research shows that many present-day ...

Genomes are key to unlocking life's evolutionary history. The presence and absence of certain genetic sequences and mutations can give us clues to the ...

Scientists used mtDNA to confirm what many researchers had long suspected: the Chinese “dragon man” Harbin skull belonged to ...

Genetic ancestry is a concept that has long captured people’s imaginations. It’s no surprise that it’s been turned into a ...

Larger animals do get more cancer than smaller ones, overturning the 45-year-old “Peto’s paradox” which suggested no link between animal size and cancer risk Species that evolved larger body sizes ...

The microscopic organisms that fill our bodies, soils, oceans and atmosphere play essential roles in human health and the ...

Scientists say they have solved the mystery of the Burtele foot, a set of 3.4 million-year-old bones found in Ethiopia in 2009. The fossils, along with others unearthed more recently, have now been ...

In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...

Four billion years ago, Earth was violent, hot, and unstable. Yet new research suggests that by then, life had already ...

DROUGHT CONDITIONS persist across much of the state, but local Christmas tree farm owners say that despite losing some of their young, newly planted trees to the elements, they’ve got plenty of big ...

Residents on a south-west London street are "devastated" after a tree was "removed in error". Premier Tree Care & Conservation cut down the tree on Priory Road in Kew, Richmond, instead of one on a ...